History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Force |
Builder | Penn-Jersey Corp., Camden, New Jersey |
Laid down | 19 November 1941 |
Launched | 7 September 1942 |
Commissioned | 16 June 1943 |
Renamed | USS PC-1603, 1 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 21 June 1945 |
Honors and awards | 3 battle stars (World War II) |
Fate | Destroyed, 24 October 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Adroit-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 295 long tons (300 t) |
Length | 173 ft 8 in (52.93 m) |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Complement | 65 |
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USS PC-1603 was a submarine chaser of the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally built and commissioned as USS Force (AM-99), an Adroit-class minesweeper. On 1 June, she was renamed PC-1603 and earned three battle stars for service in the Pacific during the war. The ship was damaged by a pair of kamikaze aircraft on 26 May 1945 and later scuttled.